Comments on: Watch out for (ongoing) LBS Hype http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:26:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Search Terms… Again « no.5 blog http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-886042 Search Terms… Again « no.5 blog Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:16:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-886042 <p>[...] hype. Right. I just googled that as well. And Giga Om is still ahead of me. But at least I’m at the first page Possibly related posts: [...]</p> [...] hype. Right. I just googled that as well. And Giga Om is still ahead of me. But at least I’m at the first page Possibly related posts: [...]

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]]> By: Arjun http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76187 Arjun Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:14:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76187 <p>Jesse, you're absolutely right, but why is there no way to make it move faster? There are so many interesting, useful, wonderful LBS apps that want to be developed, but the monopolistic telcos seem like they'll be dragging their feet for years.</p> <p>It's driving me crazy. Who's going to be the first to step up?</p> Jesse, you’re absolutely right, but why is there no way to make it move faster? There are so many interesting, useful, wonderful LBS apps that want to be developed, but the monopolistic telcos seem like they’ll be dragging their feet for years.

It’s driving me crazy. Who’s going to be the first to step up?

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76185 Jesse Kopelman Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:30:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76185 <p>Shawn, unlimited always rubs telcos the wrong way. To them, every application is a separate paid service. Remember these people used to charge you a reocurring fee for the privilege of having touch-tone dailing back when you had to buy a landline phone from Ma Bell. Eventually reality will seep in and they will offer exactly the service you describe, but not before dragging their feet and missing out on lots of revenue.</p> Shawn, unlimited always rubs telcos the wrong way. To them, every application is a separate paid service. Remember these people used to charge you a reocurring fee for the privilege of having touch-tone dailing back when you had to buy a landline phone from Ma Bell. Eventually reality will seep in and they will offer exactly the service you describe, but not before dragging their feet and missing out on lots of revenue.

]]> By: Shawn McCollum http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76183 Shawn McCollum Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:27:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76183 <p>I don't think paying for individual LBS services is going to foster growth and innovation. What i'd like to see is a flat rate from the carrier that will enable LBS over the mobile web for any site with user consent. That way the users can try out services without having to pay every time and the carriers can keep the flat rate for themselves. The application vendor would then either make they're money via ads and charge for premium services if the user signs up. </p> <p>I'd rather pay for functionality that can be used in many forms rather then a specific service. I can get "unlimited" data from the carrier, why not "unlimited" LBS.</p> I don’t think paying for individual LBS services is going to foster growth and innovation. What i’d like to see is a flat rate from the carrier that will enable LBS over the mobile web for any site with user consent. That way the users can try out services without having to pay every time and the carriers can keep the flat rate for themselves. The application vendor would then either make they’re money via ads and charge for premium services if the user signs up.

I’d rather pay for functionality that can be used in many forms rather then a specific service. I can get “unlimited” data from the carrier, why not “unlimited” LBS.

]]> By: ecarr http://gigaom.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76181 ecarr Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:19:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/abi-20-million/#comment-76181 <p>$3 for a carrier that is generating $25-30 ARPU for a prepay subscriber (or even say a person that is part of a family service) is a pretty nice bump. Margins are high on these LBS kinds of service.</p> $3 for a carrier that is generating $25-30 ARPU for a prepay subscriber (or even say a person that is part of a family service) is a pretty nice bump. Margins are high on these LBS kinds of service.

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